Multi-Agent RL papers, 2023–2026
Games and MARL
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 2,126 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Multi-Agent RL went from 311 papers in 2023 to 868 in 2026, roughly 2.8x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Multi-Agent RL work: 809 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 9 in 2023 to 70 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #1 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Classical Planning, is up 3.3x versus 2.8x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 88 | 37 | 80 | 106 | 311 |
| 2024 | 147 | 39 | 82 | 105 | 373 |
| 2025 | 255 | 91 | 115 | 113 | 574 |
| 2026 | 319 | 153 | 224 | 172 | 868 |
Representative papers
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- NeurIPS 20262-Step Agent: How a Bayesian Decision Maker Learns from AI-Decision Support
- ICML 2026A Causal Decomposition Approach for Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits
- ICLR 2026Calibrated Information Bottleneck for Trusted Multi-modal Clustering
- CVPR 2026A Sanity Check for Multi-In-Domain Face Forgery Detection in the
- NeurIPS 2025Algorithms and SQ Lower Bounds for Robustly Learning Real-valued Multi-Index Models
- ICML 2025A Classification View on Meta Learning Bandits
- ICLR 2025BEEM: Boosting Performance of Early Exit DNNs using Multi-Exit Classifiers as Experts
- CVPR 2025All-Day Multi-Camera Multi-Target Tracking
- NeurIPS 2024A New Multi-Source Light Detection Benchmark and Semi-Supervised Focal Light Detection
- ICML 2024A Federated Stochastic Multi-level Compositional Minimax Algorithm for Deep AUC Maximization
- ICLR 2024An Intuitive Multi-Frequency Feature Representation for SO(3)-Equivariant Networks
- CVPR 2024DeconfuseTrack: Dealing with Confusion for Multi-Object Tracking
- NeurIPS 2023A Novel Approach for Effective Multi-View Clustering with Information-Theoretic Perspective
- ICML 2023A Framework for Adapting Offline Algorithms to Solve Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Problems with Bandit Feedback
- ICLR 2023An Additive Instance-Wise Approach to Multi-class Model Interpretation
- CVPR 2023A Light Touch Approach to Teaching Transformers Multi-View Geometry
- NeurIPS 2026A Black-Box Reduction from Regret to Multi-Level Coverage
- ICML 2026A Consensus Anchor-guided Hypergraph Framework for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
- ICLR 2026Confident Block Diagonal Structure-Aware Invariable Graph Completion for Incomplete Multi-view Clustering
- CVPR 2026Anti-Degradation Lifelong Multi-View Clustering
All Multi-Agent RL papers
2,126 papers, page 30 of 43
- CVPR 2024Arbitrary Motion Style Transfer with Multi-condition Motion Latent Diffusion Model
- CVPR 2024Attentive Illumination Decomposition Model for Multi-Illuminant White Balancing
- CVPR 2024Boosting Adversarial Training via Fisher-Rao Norm-based Regularization
- CVPR 2024Category-Level Multi-Part Multi-Joint 3D Shape Assembly
- CVPR 2024Class Incremental Learning with Multi-Teacher Distillation
- CVPR 2024CN-RMA: Combined Network with Ray Marching Aggregation for 3D Indoor Object Detection from Multi-view Images
- CVPR 2024ConsistNet: Enforcing 3D Consistency for Multi-view Images Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Contrastive Learning for DeepFake Classification and Localization via Multi-Label Ranking
- CVPR 2024CrowdDiff: Multi-hypothesis Crowd Density Estimation using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024DeconfuseTrack: Dealing with Confusion for Multi-Object Tracking
- CVPR 2024Density-Adaptive Model Based on Motif Matrix for Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction
- CVPR 2024Differentiable Information Bottleneck for Deterministic Multi-view Clustering
- CVPR 2024DiffusionRegPose: Enhancing Multi-Person Pose Estimation using a Diffusion-Based End-to-End Regression Approach
- CVPR 2024Efficient Multi-scale Network with Learnable Discrete Wavelet Transform for Blind Motion Deblurring
- CVPR 2024EFHQ: Multi-purpose ExtremePose-Face-HQ dataset
- CVPR 2024Embodied Multi-Modal Agent trained by an LLM from a Parallel TextWorld
- CVPR 2024EmbodiedScan: A Holistic Multi-Modal 3D Perception Suite Towards Embodied AI
- CVPR 2024EpiDiff: Enhancing Multi-View Synthesis via Localized Epipolar-Constrained Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Equivariant Multi-Modality Image Fusion
- CVPR 2024ERMVP: Communication-Efficient and Collaboration-Robust Multi-Vehicle Perception in Challenging Environments
- CVPR 2024ESR-NeRF: Emissive Source Reconstruction Using LDR Multi-view Images
- CVPR 2024Event-based Visible and Infrared Fusion via Multi-task Collaboration
- CVPR 2024Focus on Your Instruction: Fine-grained and Multi-instruction Image Editing by Attention Modulation
- CVPR 2024Frequency Decoupling for Motion Magnification via Multi-Level Isomorphic Architecture
- CVPR 2024GeoAuxNet: Towards Universal 3D Representation Learning for Multi-sensor Point Clouds
- CVPR 2024GOAT-Bench: A Benchmark for Multi-Modal Lifelong Navigation
- CVPR 2024GRAM: Global Reasoning for Multi-Page VQA
- CVPR 2024Groupwise Query Specialization and Quality-Aware Multi-Assignment for Transformer-based Visual Relationship Detection
- CVPR 2024HoloVIC: Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Multi-Sensor Holographic Intersection and Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative
- CVPR 2024HouseCat6D - A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Category Level 6D Object Perception Dataset with Household Objects in Realistic Scenarios
- CVPR 2024Improving Training Efficiency of Diffusion Models via Multi-Stage Framework and Tailored Multi-Decoder Architecture
- CVPR 2024Instruct-ReID: A Multi-purpose Person Re-identification Task with Instructions
- CVPR 2024Investigating and Mitigating the Side Effects of Noisy Views for Self-Supervised Clustering Algorithms in Practical Multi-View Scenarios
- CVPR 2024Joint-Task Regularization for Partially Labeled Multi-Task Learning
- CVPR 2024Jointly Training and Pruning CNNs via Learnable Agent Guidance and Alignment
- CVPR 2024Learn from View Correlation: An Anchor Enhancement Strategy for Multi-view Clustering
- CVPR 2024Learning Instance-Aware Correspondences for Robust Multi-Instance Point Cloud Registration in Cluttered Scenes
- CVPR 2024Learning to Select Views for Efficient Multi-View Understanding
- CVPR 2024Living Scenes: Multi-object Relocalization and Reconstruction in Changing 3D Environments
- CVPR 2024Low-Rank Approximation for Sparse Attention in Multi-Modal LLMs
- CVPR 2024M&M VTO: Multi-Garment Virtual Try-On and Editing
- CVPR 2024Magic Tokens: Select Diverse Tokens for Multi-modal Object Re-Identification
- CVPR 2024Mask4Align: Aligned Entity Prompting with Color Masks for Multi-Entity Localization Problems
- CVPR 2024MaxQ: Multi-Axis Query for N:M Sparsity Network
- CVPR 2024MCPNet: An Interpretable Classifier via Multi-Level Concept Prototypes
- CVPR 2024MiKASA: Multi-Key-Anchor & Scene-Aware Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding
- CVPR 2024ModaVerse: Efficiently Transforming Modalities with LLMs
- CVPR 2024MOHO: Learning Single-view Hand-held Object Reconstruction with Multi-view Occlusion-Aware Supervision
- CVPR 2024MoST: Multi-Modality Scene Tokenization for Motion Prediction
- CVPR 2024MP5: A Multi-modal Open-ended Embodied System in Minecraft via Active Perception
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FAQ
- How many Multi-Agent RL papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 2,126 in total: 311 in 2023, 373 in 2024, 574 in 2025, 868 in 2026.
- How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 319 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 255 the year before.
- How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 153 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 91 the year before.
- How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 224 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 115 the year before.
- How many Multi-Agent RL papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 172 Multi-Agent RL papers, versus 113 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Multi-Agent RL papers?
- NeurIPS, with 809 papers from 2023 to 2026.